so it's real sense an abandoned station
right we're looking for a sexy white polo
a sexy white polo a sexy white polo
just found the sexy polo chris, are we on camera? we're on camera already
how are you just waking up yeah well i thought
that's it too actually how's your trip it was all it was quick it was nice it
was yeah all good as respected a virtual handshake
obviously oh yes welcome to Uckfield absolutely, are you locally?
you're kind of not really hempfield about half an hour that way
okay right and i'm guessing you brought us to this industrial state for a reason
yes good trespassing for pleasure i haven't been there for about 10 years so
hopefully the access is still the same as it was, we'll give it a go
not for the first time in my short youtube career i decided to film this
important segment with no audio so today's guest who will be
introduced shortly is detailing what today's plan is and to
sum up exactly what he's trying to say here
we'll use rail map online to show where we are and where we're going
we are starting today's journey down here in the south east of england
our goal today is to look at the ooze valley line which is labeled here
in pink either side of the map now why those two lines don't meet in
the middle will all become clear very shortly
okay well you may have already noticed we have been joined today by a special
guest for the true aficionado the disused
abandoned railway you may already recognize this chap
chris welcome welcome of course to the channel
um we'll put a lot of links below but chris makes some wonderful dvds
about disused railways especially in this house in this area
south of england really i would suggest well i've been going for about 15 years
or so it's all dvd it's all filmed on analog old
equipment and it's a shoestring cheapo but it's thorough
lots of trespassing for pleasure seeing the views that you may not necessarily
want to go under and find. check out the dvd check out the links
below because mainly available on ebay is that correct a lot more detail
than what we go into um maybe a little bit more trespassing
than we go into as well.
right so here we are we're heading now towards
um uckfield actual station what are we doing today chris
what line are we on why are we here we're on the old uckfield to lewes line
um which from which our doomed railway peels off
but we're just seeing this because this is where it had a train run on the
upgrade or the oozed line it would have come this way
so it's just to be complete really uh i'm actually standing what you would
have seen ahead of us here is is the entrance to the uckfield
original station there are in fact some platform remains which we may or may not
be able to see through the growth and there's a set
of buffers and still a bit of track which is quite nice uh just over here
is uh the remainder of the signal box oh wow looks
nice and relic yep local youths well done local youths handily down this embankment
i put in some steps also i notice over there as well chris is
exactly the same fantastic well done
this is left over from the outfield lewes line 1941
southern railway wow makes a good door stop i got one on hand
nothing like a tangible relics
in any event this we would have been standing at the platform
at the old upgrade station building would have been on the right hand side
yep rivers on the left and if the trees were
clear you'd see across to the level crossing which is still there
wow this is well this is why we love having people as local guides
on the channel because we'd have never even probably even looked for this part
but right now we're stood on top of some old rails
uh coming into uckfield old station fantastic
this is why you need to go and buy some of chris's dvds
okay because we wouldn't have um saving the pain i wouldn't do it again you know
we wouldn't have come here would we in a million years rebecca i doubt no
um becca certainly wouldn't come here rebecca wouldn't come because there's a
lot of stinging nettles for the
is we legs on we are actually on the course of the track bed this is
the doom dudes valley railway around the environment that's looking back to
the west towards sorry to the east i always do that it's a meeting to the
east towards that field station uh it was chopped when they built the
bypass that i feel bypass in i think it's the 90s and if we were here
in the winter months you would be able to see a very short
distance over there another embankment for the upfield to lewis line of course
which goes off so that's the direction of uh
travel yes i don't think we're gonna get too far in that direction are we
i mean this this is what railway hunting is all about yeah absolutely great big
brick structure's hardly under ivy no one knows
what they do now
it's a fabulous all that work yeah all that work literally for nothing
enjoying the shoes
okay you join us walking um just away from the little
village or hamlet or what i'm gonna call it now
big question that's been on my mind is was there a tunnel because when you look
on the os maps it looks like there should be a tunnel
or would have been a tunnel yeah there are there there would have
been two tunnels on this line had they ever built it okay it's come
to its entirety this is one of them and referred to as buckham hill tunnel
right right now's probably a good time as well
to briefly chat about the history of this line my understanding it was almost
an insurance policy yeah um is that correct london brighton
south coast railway wanted to prevent a rival and i'll
remember who the name of that rival was shortly
it could be london chatham dover railways okay
yep it's a blocking tactic really to prevent another railway company from
coming into their territory so what else can we tell you 1866 that's
when it they started work on it i think the act of parliament goes back to 1863
and then they had this great big financial crash in
1866 sound familiar we haven't learned anything
and work stopped so no further work at all after i think 1867
and by 1868's completely abandoned project wow so very very short-lived
yeah
i'm really excited now because although we know there is no tunnel
this now leads up we're on the eastern side of what would have been
the tunnel you can see that way is up towards the hill where the tunnel
would have gone
all right we're going to call this half of the line a day now
we could we can't go too much further in that direction we're aware we might be
off the beaten track slightly um just a touch just a touch right so
where are we going now chris we're going to the
we're going to relocate to really the other end of the line which is the sort
of north west end um around linfield
hote where there are some more remains to be seen
lintfield ahead of us that's it and this is uh what we're gonna
have a skating look at is where linfield station would have been
okay which is on the left-hand side of this road and uh
there's a large flat area largely overgrown i expect now but a large
area where the station was going to be built was was bought
there would have been a bridge i think they did actually build a bridge over
the road okay brickwork remains in the bridge yep
so it's real sense abandoned station so we're right on top now yeah so we've
been
that directions back towards uh upfield obviously yep
if you look on the left hand side here you can see a gentle slope
which we assume would have been the access road and so platforms
would have been kind of in front of us here but we're pretty sure nothing was
built other than the embankment and the bridge there was a there was a
brick film uh part of which i nearly fell down a
few years ago but i'm not sure if i could find it now
so we are on copy hold lane copy our lane bridge is where we are next to you
and we're getting close to close ish now to the brighton main line
yeah um and this is a lovely little
embankment over a bridge just down there what was the bridge i would assume
not anymore anymore they did finish this bridge they did actually it was i've
never seen photos but there's documented it was actually completed
knocked down in the early 1900s to help traffic you would have been looking in
the direction of a tunnel like kennard's farm back in
that direction but now is that where we stopped yeah
because we we obviously stopped and we couldn't really stop we kind of stopped
and got equipment footage uh main road very busy nowhere to park
sure that was your turn get the camera rebecca no no never
yeah so the aardingly branch Ardinlie lie otherwise the locals get very
uptight the ardingly branch so if you look at the map this would have
criss-crossed the older branch line yes but when this was being built the
online branch line had yet to be constructed that was still 20 years in
the future about 1880 thereabouts this is 1860.
so some people say had this line been built they wouldn't have built the only
live arch line so they would never it's it's a theoretical oh we've seen
that yeah that's called chris cross yes would it have existed maybe not so a lot
of people say oh this is where the lines would have crossed
but it's all guesswork really
we're amazed at how wide this embankment is chris is saying there's potential
is speculation but potential that it may have split so it may not have only just
gone north but it also may have gone to the south
as well and split off
so skew bridge this is ski bridge yes it is this is the beginning
of the doomed Ouse valley railway the north west end
that's where it would have peeled away from the brighton london brighton
bit of a noisy road but what you will be able to see is the brick abutments
carrying the line off the main line onto its own little
branch so last stop for us is going to be
not necessarily relevant to the use valley line but we're going to head on
to it's known as the used valley garden so it's appropriate enough
yep
so we're we're ending our journey here is that right chris we're at the end of
the line this is the uh the ouse valley viaduct
not technically part of the line but it's uh very close to it and it's called
the ouse valley viaduct so it seems completely appreciated it's very
appropriate it's exceptionally beautiful yeah yeah we're gonna end our journey
here so big thanks to chris for joining us today
it's it's been a joy there's so many places we wouldn't have actually
sort of looked for ourselves let alone you know gone on to
but i've always wanted to meet you guys you know yeah again
the most important thing we're going to say now is look on the links below look
on the pinned comment that i will do and go and buy some of chris's dvds
because if you like our channel and you like some of the detail
i'm not going to give you a lot of detail but if you like the detail you
really need to look at some of chris's dvds
buy them look on ebay you'll see the link down below but for the three of us
we shall bid you farewell and we shall see you next week
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